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Principles of Bone Biology is the essential resource for anyone involved in the study of bones. It is the most comprehensive, complete, up-to-date source of information on all aspects of bones and bone biology in one convenient source. Written and published in less than one year, it will become an indispensable resource for any scientific or medical library. This, second edition, details countless advances over the past five years, both by updating old chapters and providing additional material. It takes the reader from the basic elements of fundamental research to the most sophisticated concepts in therapeutics. The most current and timely source of information about the biology and pathology of boneProvides succinct coverage of the subjectContributors include over 200 of the most respected researchers in the fieldExtensive table of contents and index for easy referenceEasy-to-read and highly informative to both the newcomer and the initiated to the field Spans the spectrum from molecular biology to in vivo pharmacologyComplete bibliography with each entry fully referenced for additional background reading First edition was selected by Doody Publishing as one of the 250 Best Health Science books published in 1996

An up-to-date review of basic research on biomembranes. In this volume, foremost experts in the field consider the most important aspects of signal transduction across biological membranes: - General Mechanistic Patterns of Signal Transduction - Receptors for Neurotransmitters and Peptide Hormones- G Proteins in Signal Transduction- Membrane-associated Protein Kinases and Phosphatases- Phospholipases in Signal Transduction The volume is an excellent supplement to 'Biomembranes - Physical Aspects' and 'Biomembranes - Structural and Functional Aspects', also edited by Meir Shinitzky. These three books together provide a comprehensive ground for understanding complex physiological processes. Meir Shinitzky, Ph. D., is Professor of Biophysics in the Department of Membrane Research and Biophysics, The Weizman Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Since 1971, his research has focused on various aspects of membrane structure and dynamics.

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Product Description: This title contains comprehensive reviews of novel information in intestinal transport, including control of nutrition in gene regulation. There are diagrammatic representations of key concepts and processes. Additionally, this volume offers new insight at a molecular level into the basis of intestinal disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)